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Bellême is a chief town of canton French department of the Orne (61), district of Mortagne-with-Pole in area Basse-Normandie.

Its inhabitants are Bellêmois and Bellêmoises.

Geography

Bellême is on a hill which dominates the Pole and a golf of 18 holes.

Weapons of the town of Bellême:

“sand to a notched fortress with three gold turns. ”

Graph of the evolution of the population 1794-1820 & 1836-1999

Church St Saver XVe, XVIe, rebuilt 1675 with 1710.
Crypt of the vault Saint-Santin origin Xe.
Porch XVe and ditches of the old castle.
Vestiges of ramparts, remarkable entry where the commemorative plaque is seen recalling that the castle and the city were taken in 1229 by Saint Louis and his/her mother.
Houses of the XVIIe and the XVIIIe.
Town hall of the XVIIe.
Sundials street of the castle, places Republic and places Liègeard.

George François Berthereau (° with Bellême in 1732 - ✝ in 1794): scientist Benedictine.
Jean Massard (° with Bellême in 1742 - ✝ with Paris in 1822): engraver, member of the Academy of painting.
Aristide Boucicaut (° with Bellême in 1810 - ✝ with Paris in 1877): inventor of the concept of “department store”, owner of the Cheap .
Thomas-Henri Martin (° with Bellême in 1810 - ✝ with Rennes in 1884): historian hellenist, author of the Study on Timée of Plato .
Roger Martin of Gard (° with Neuilly-sur-Seine the March 23rd 1881 - ✝ with Sérigny close to Bellême the August 22nd 1958): writer Nobel Prize of literature in 1937.
Augustin de Romanet (° with Boulogne-Billancourt the April 2nd 1961, city council man of Bellême since 1989): managing director of the Deposit and consignment office since the March 7th 2007.

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